From Capalbo’s series of pocket cookbooks on Georgian cuisine and culture, this volume gives recipes for the country’s most delicious regional khachapuri and filled breads.
Albrecht Dürer’s greatest achievement: the 15 woodcuts illustrating the Book of Revelation, produced on the apocalyptic brink of the year 1500, with Europe under Ottoman assault.
A day in the life of Monet, a novel as luminous as the colours he is using to portray his garden, in his last, great paintings.
An Elephant in Rome is a book for those who love the endless fascination of the Eternal City and want a deeper and more entertaining tale of how it came to be.
The oldest library in the world lies derelict and forgotten in an empty landscape. A thousand years ago, farseers prophesied these final days when the book city would fulfil the secret purpose of its founders. But what is the secret of Alligor?
Millais's own account of his art, and an assessment by one of the most influential critics of the period. First time reprinted.
Ovid's matchless love poems in a glittering translation by the young Christopher Marlowe, illustrated by Rodin’s astonishingly free and improvisatory woodcuts, made in his later years.
This book presents the most important early texts about Tintoretto, some for the first time in English.
An examination of the timely revival of the radical ideas and values of John Ruskin, the 19th-century artist, critic, educator, environmentalist, philanthropist and campaigner.
A vivid collage-portrait of Rome in three volumes – the most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled.
A vivid collage-portrait of Rome in three volumes – the most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled.
Contemporary assessments of the life and art of Bellini, including his wayward correspondence with the great Duchess of Ferrara.